Austrian automatic winding square silver watch Circa 1900

Automatic winding pedometer watch by August von Loehr
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An Austrian square pocket watch with automatic winding by oscillating weight pedometer system, circa 1900.
The silver case is lavishly florally engraved with a raptorial bird decoration and a signed cuvette: Perpetual Patent. The dial is white enamel with Roman numerals for hours, an outer minutes track, subsidiary seconds, power reserve indicator, and spade hands. It has a square movement, a pedometer system with oscillating weight and a gold screw compensation balance.
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Dimensions: 48 x 48 mm
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Weight: 124 g
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Signed: Loehr Patent
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Always an eye-catcher: square-cased pocket watches by August von Loehr (1847-1917), which are always beautifully decorated. Loehr’s patents intended to eliminate some weak points of the self-winding mechanism by improving the design of the system (which had been around for a number of decades); he sold several thousands of his watches, which is remarkable for this type of timekeeper.